Just watched this very interesting TED talk on Story and the prevalence it has in our lives. The speaker was warning against it - against simplistic stories, stories used to manipulate for advertising, politics, self-deception and so forth.
And in all that he has a point. However he failed to mention the positive side - how it teaches, socializes, binds our society and civilization together - and how it can be used for good as well as evil (HAHAHA).
So, I'm off to use my stories for evil, and then test them on human monkeys like in the below Channel 4 programme (it's actually quite an interesting look at how stories affect us neurologically, though it seems to focus more on images than story. Might only be available for UK peeps.)
Enjoy
What makes a masterpiece
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